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|quote = {{font|font=Times New Roman|size=16px| {{nbsp|5}} This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'}}
|source = —Leonard Cohen<ref name=Atlantic_20121204>{{cite news |last1=Fetters |first1=Ashley |title=How Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' Became Everybody's 'Hallelujah' |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/12/how-leonard-cohens-hallelujah-became-everybodys-hallelujah/265900/ |work=The Atlantic |date=December 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220703090217/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/12/how-leonard-cohens-hallelujah-became-everybodys-hallelujah/265900/ |archive-date=July 3, 2022 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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His original version, recorded on his 1984 album ''[[Various Positions]]'', contains allusions to several biblical verses, including the stories of [[Samson]] and [[Delilah]] from the [[Book of Judges]] ("she cut your hair") as well as [[David|King David]] and [[Bathsheba]] ("you saw her bathing on the roof, her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you").<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 Nov 2023 |title=Hallelujah By Leonard Cohen – Meanings And Thoughts |url=http://itsallaboutall.com/leonard-cohen/hallelujah-meaning/#bathing-on-the-roof |website=Its All About All |quote=It happened one late afternoon, "that David arose off his bed, and was walking around on the roof of the king's house, and from the roof, he saw a woman bathes, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon" (2 Samuel 11,2)}}</ref><ref name="bbc.co.uk" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biblestudytools.com/2-samuel/11.html |title=2 Samuel 11 - NIV Bible - In the spring, at the time when kings go off to |website=Biblestudytools.com |access-date=2017-07-21}}</ref>
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| quote = {{font |font=Times New Roman |size=12pt | {{nbsp|5}} Even Cohen, like the king in the song, was baffled by Hallelujah. He didn't want to explain it and decided he probably couldn't if he tried. He said: "If I knew where songs came from, I would go there more often." }}
| source = Xan Brooks, ''The Guardian''<ref name=Guardian_20220918>{{cite news |last1=Brooks |first1=Xan |title=Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song review – a thorough, respectful documentary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/18/hallelujah-leonard-cohen-a-journey-a-song-review-a-thorough-respectful-documentary |newspaper=The Guardian |date=September 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220919184352/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/18/hallelujah-leonard-cohen-a-journey-a-song-review-a-thorough-respectful-documentary |archive-date=19 September 2022 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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The song was the subject of a 2012 book, ''[[The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of 'Hallelujah']]''; author Alan Light said that Cohen's "approach to language and craft feel unlike the work of anybody else. They sound rooted in poetry and literature because he studied as a poet and a novelist first."<ref name=Guardian_20220629/> The book served as the basis for the 2022 documentary film ''[[Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song]]''; the film's co-creator said that Cohen "addressed the deepest of our human concerns about longing for connection and longing for some sort of hope, transcendence and acknowledgment of the difficulties of life."<ref name=Guardian_20220629/>
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| source = – [[Bob Dylan]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/leonard-cohen-makes-it-darker|title=Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|first=David |last=Remnick|date=17 October 2016|access-date=21 October 2016}}</ref>
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[[Linkin Park]] frontman [[Chester Bennington]] sang "Hallelujah" during his eulogy to [[Chris Cornell]] at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on 26 May 2017.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Liza|last=Shcherbakova|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7873825/chester-bennington-chris-cornell-funeral-hallelujah-video|title=Hear Chester Bennington Sing 'Hallelujah' at Chris Cornell's Funeral|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|publisher=[[Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group]]|location=New York City|date=20 July 2017|access-date=20 July 2017}}</ref>
The American alt-right conspiracy theorist and comedian [[Owen Benjamin]] used the music of "Hallelujah" with new lyrics in his song titled "How They Rule Ya" in support of freeing British [[far-right]] activist [[
At a national remembrance in January 2021 for those killed by the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States]], [[Yolanda Adams]] sang a slightly modified two verses of "Hallelujah", changing "Maybe there's no God above" to "I know that there's a God above". A number of American Jews criticized the performance, as they had a usage of the song at the end of the [[2020 Republican National Convention]], for ignoring the song's lyrics about sexuality and questioning one's faith.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Grisar|first=PJ|title=Jews plead, once again: Listen to the lyrics of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'|url=https://forward.com/culture/462467/joe-biden-covid-19-memorial-hallelujah-leonard-cohen-yolanda-adams/|access-date=2021-02-01|website=The Forward|date=20 January 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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